John Sitilides is a geopolitical speaker specializing in U.S. government relations, geopolitical risk, and international affairs, and is a National Security Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

He is a brilliant geopolitical strategist and speaks at conferences globally on geopolitical risk management and the business impacts of international security policies.

John examines the geopolitical and geo-economic factors affecting markets in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He assists corporate executives, investment managers, and civic audiences in understanding and mitigating risks.

He served as Southern Europe Regional Coordinator at the Foreign Service Institute under four U.S. Presidents and has testified before Congress, frequently appearing as a national security commentator in major media outlets.

His clients include leaders in real estate, construction, agribusiness, aviation, and technology, focusing on environmental regulatory reform and private property rights, and he began his career in the U.S. Senate and political campaigns.

He is a member of the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C., the Empire State Forum, and the Association of Former Senate Aides. Sitilides holds a Master’s Degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University.

TALK TOPIC:

“Washington & the World: The New Geopolitics of Trade, Technology, Energy & War.”

Global finance, commerce, industrial, and security sectors, along with supply chains of paramount importance to the U.S. and other advanced economies of the world, have been significantly impacted and disrupted by geopolitical, geo-economic, and emerging geo-technological risk on an international scale. My keynote presentation explores, explains, and simplifies the complex geopolitical inputs and factors that shape leadership decisions in Asia, Europe, and the world’s major capitals, marked by the deepening interconnectivity of global markets, as follows:

• We examine the Trump Administration’s current and anticipated foreign policy, international trade, national security, and global affairs priorities and strategies for the next several years, concentrating on major shifts in U.S. worldwide tariff policies and trade negotiations, including with countries whose metals, minerals, rare earth elements and natural resources are critical to American economic, technological, industrial, and military leadership.  
• We analyze the strategic commercial, technological, and military competition between the U.S. and China over the next decade to constrain Beijing’s ongoing disruption of international trade systems, global supply chains, and advanced technology interoperability.
• We assess the active yet unconventional diplomacy to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine that undermines and weakens the European Union and NATO alliance structures, and to secure regional and global container shipping lanes and energy exports through and from the Middle East.
• We evaluate projected A.I. and related advanced technology growth trends directly impacting global hydrocarbon, nuclear, and renewable energy markets.